Miguel's House Party

In this important election year, I invite you to meet Jovanka Beckles, Vice-Mayor andmember of the Richmond City Council who is running for the vacant 15th AssemblyDistrict seat. The incumbent, Assemblyman Tony Thurmond (D-Richmond), is runningto be the next Superintendent of Public Instruction. Assembly District15 includes the cities of Albany, Berkeley, El Cerrito, Emeryville, Hercules, Piedmont,Pinole, Richmond, San Pablo, and a portion of Oakland.

First elected to her Richmond council seat in 2010, Beckles has been aprogressive voice helping to pass a local rent control measure and calling for greaterscrutiny of refinery owner Chevron, which spent more than $3 million to try to defeat herin 2014. Big Soda spent millions as she campaigned to tax their deeply unhealthyproducts and invest the funds in nutrition and youth athletics.

Working with law enforcement, she created the Richmond Municipal ID Program that allows immigrants tosafely identify themselves to the police. She introduced and led the effort to raise theminimum wage. She does not take contributions from corporations and neverwill.

We hope that you will come to meet Jovanka on July 1st and get to know her as aviable progressive candidate. The 2018 election is very important on so manylevels-- City, State and National.